YAY!!!!!!! This is from Caribbean Championship Wrestling featuring Rick St. James & Bobby Jaggers on commentary and this is what we got on the old Superstars of Wrestling show in the ATL at about 2 AM on Saturday night.

 

Detroit Demolition (Randy Culley) vs. Rufus R. Jones (10/31/88) Rufus was nothing but dancing around and no selling head shots here but the fans loved him. Rufus was fun but ancient and never a good worker even when he was young so this wasn't good but a fun watch.

 

Afa vs. "Gentleman" Chris Adams (10/15/88) Adams runs Chicky Starr out of the ring to start the match so Afa jumps him from behind. Adams comes back though and sends Afa to the grass so he could stall a while. Adams works over Afa a little but Chicky does a good job of distracting Adams making him chase after him which gives Afa time to recover. Adams would keep up the pressure until Afa kicked him in the balls which Adams sold like a champ. Adams would go to the grass where Chicky would slam him before Adams would roll back into the ring. Adams was good here as FIP although Afa would use the nerve hold constantly, Adams did a good job of selling this. Adams had some decent hope spots but Afa relied way too much on the nerve hold here. Adams made a good comeback though hitting a Superkick to the ribs but couldn't put Afa away as he got some nearfalls. Afa would grab a foreign object and used it on Adams before the bell rang for a time limit draw. Interesting finish to a match where Adams was wasted.

 

Next is a TNT video. Then we get a Ron Starr video who has now turned babyface.

 

Puerto Rico Heavyweight Title: Ricky Santana © vs. "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers (10/22/88) Santana is fiery to start sending Jaggers to the floor where he could stall and the fans are very hot for Ricky with Jaggers being fun at agitating them. Santana got tired of Jaggers walking around on the floor so he snuck up behind him and hit a big clothesline before celebrating back in the ring. Jaggers still though wanted to walk around so Santana would fly off the apron with a diving elbow on a downed Jaggers which was quite the jump. The match was all Santana until Jaggers went to his tights and used a foreign object to neutralize him. Jaggers worked a reverse chinlock before allowing Santana to send himself to the floor as he tried to run at him and then followed Santana to the floor to hit a couple of short clotheslines. Jaggers then steps up the aggression as he threw Santana into the railing then the ringpost which brought out the juice as Jaggers taunted the fans. Jaggers would try to clothesline him into the ringpost but Santana ducked and Jaggers hit all post giving Ricky the chance he needed to recover. Ricky is bloody and fired up trying to put away Jaggers but would eat a reverse atomic drop by Jaggers who decides that he wants to hang Santana with his bullwhip for the DQ. Jaggers attacks the hanging Santana until Invader III & The Battens run out. Crappy finish but a fun match and I'm throwing this up as a low-end pick.

 

Huracan Castillo Jr., Maelo Huertas, & Miguel Perez Jr. vs. The Ninja Express (Mr. Pogo & Kensuke Sasaki) & El Profe (November 1988) Okay match nothing special.

 

Then we get clips of a pole battle royal.

Detroit Demolition (Randy Culley) vs. Rufus R. Jones This is so fucking weird. They reference this is for Atlanta, so am I right in assuming this is actually a WWC show produced specifically for the ATL market? WTF? To top it off of all the matches we've got the long lost other Demolition guy v. Rufus Jones, which is probably the most random match in the history of wrestling. I am actually fairly certain I could not come up with a more absurd match on paper if I tried than this match. "Puerto Rican wrestling promotion airing match at 2 AM on Atlanta t.v. with Bobby Jaggers on commentator featuring Rufus Jones and Randy Culley working under a version of his short lived Demolition gimmick." Seriously just read that and try and come up with something more ridiculous, you won't succeed. Anyway I actually enjoyed this match way more than I should have. I am something of a Rufus mark, because Burrhead was local here for years and would freely tell stories about him all the time. I'm not going to argue that Rufus was good, but there is something insanely engaging about the guy, as his charisma even at this late stage really jumps off the page. I even like the way Rufus sells shit. It's not like he is good at it, but he has this weird theatrical way of doing everything from falling backward, to throwing not particularly great looking shoulder blocks, that somehow works for me. I swear to god if this match had a real finish I would have nominated it and probably used a personal pick on it.

 

Afa v. Chris Adams Jesus Christ this is almost as strange on paper as the first match. This was long and felt long. I have no earthly idea why this would be a match you would pitch to a new audience, but there you have it. Adams did do some good selling in this at times and there were some pretty decent spots, but this lacked intensity. Not a good match.

 

TNT video was pretty good with ridiculous music. EXTRA

 

Clip of Jason beating TNT for the title.

 

Ron Starr music video with Starr now a face was good and would be a good EXTRA

 

Ricky Santana © vs. "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers Jaggers hair is shaved here, which makes me wonder how he lost it. This didn't complete grab me, but it was a pretty good match. Part of the problem is that Jaggers - while a good heel mannerism wise - does not have the most believable offense here. I did dig the fact that this built well and I thought Santana was really good in it as your fiery babyface, who bridges the gap between underdog and hometown hero well. In particular he did a pretty good Invader impression with the dramatic selling on the floor and the massive blood loss. Finish was annoying, though I didn't completely hate it. This was good enough to consider, and I wouldn't argue against it on a long form set, but this really depends on the number of matches we are looking at. As it stands I think it is clearly the least of the three matches I've seen from their feud.

 

Huracan Castillo Jr., Maelo Huertas, & Miguel Perez Jr. vs. The Ninja Express (Mr. Pogo & Kensuke Sasaki) & El Profe This was shockingly boring. Not bad, but boring. On paper you figure this would have been all action if nothing else, and instead this felt really slow moving and there was nothing engaging at all. Huertas in particular disappointed in a rare match where he was treated like something other than a scrub.

 

Clips of TNT beating Sika Pole Battle Royal This is pretty clearly the whole match as the ring is still full and a ref is scampering out of it right as they go to the match. This might be the stupidest match I've ever seen as guys just try and leap over each other to climb up the pole and/or stand around doing literally nothing for almost fifteen minutes. Unreal.